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eleemosynary corporation

eleemosynary corporation noun: a corporation dedicated to charity, particularly one established for the perpetual distribution of the alms or bounty of the founder.

Noun

eleemosynary corporation (plural eleemosynary corporations)

  1. A corporation dedicated to charity, particularly one established for the perpetual distribution of the alms or bounty of the founder.
    • As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […]1765, William Blackstone, “Of Corporations”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 469
    • An eleemosynary corporation is one that is constituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms or bounty of the founder, to such persons as he has directed: as hospitals for the maintenance of the poor, sick and impotent.1822 September, United States Law Journal, volume I, number 2, New Haven, C.T.: Gray & Hewit, →OCLC, page 298

Forms of eleemosynary corporation

pluraleleemosynary corporations

Questions about eleemosynary corporation

What does eleemosynary corporation mean?
Eleemosynary corporation means a corporation dedicated to charity, particularly one established for the perpetual distribution of the alms or bounty of the founder.
What part of speech is eleemosynary corporation?
Eleemosynary corporation is a noun.
What is the plural of eleemosynary corporation?
The plural of eleemosynary corporation is eleemosynary corporations.

Words near eleemosynary corporation in the dictionary

  1. eleemosynaries
  2. eleemosynarily
  3. eleemosynariness
  4. eleemosynars
  5. eleemosynary
  6. eleemosynary corporation
  7. eleemosynary corporations
  8. eleemosynous
  9. eleet
  10. Elefen
  11. Elefsina

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